Posted on 10/23/2017 6:54:08 AM PDT by rktman
We got the 6 on that. Then again, I am aware of a lot of disgruntled vets who vote left.
Well ultimately one person wins it all and much of America is ignored. I guess we could change the system to result in co-Presidents running the country so no winner takes it all.
One state, one vote. I could live with that.
Thr Yale Prof’s all say he will fail. After all, He’s not from Yale.
If by ‘handful’ he means Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado... not to mentions states that went blue in Obama’s first run that were categorically red previously in election after election... the system works just fine.
They ran the wrong Candidate.
Aggravated that something as simple as this immigration issue can get balled up. I’m no genius, but it seems pretty clear to me that when the law/statute says the President can withhold immigration from any country for any reason...... It probably means he can deny entry from anyplace he feels like for any reason he feels like. Guess that’s why I’m not on the bench someplace.
It’s another attempt at some sort of “proportional representation”, only this time applied to the electoral college system. One possible result, if both the Democrats and GOP fracture into a number of different parties, could be a “brokered” electoral college vote with no candidate having a clear majority. There some “coalition” would have to agree on a candidate and before the vote some “deals” (promises” would have be made to form a majority. Forming who is to be the executive of the government, the way so many Europeans do, would be terrible.
The Electoral College does exactly the OPPOSITE of what this so-called professor is basing his suit. The purpose of the College is to prevent the creation of “Factions”— a concept of our Founders from actual political factions that controlled the Europe they escaped from— in particular, factions within Parliament that maintained control in the hands of the House of Lords.
Of course, later the 17th Amendment came about cleverly to change the US Senate into a “House of Lords” not elected by the State legislatures but by each State’s open plebiscite- and supposedly mimicking the College. The Senate is elected by out of State money and Globalists cabal. Repeal the 17th. Convention of States.
Think there would be much luck in going back to the old pre 17th amendment for the sentorships? Probably not. Too much money involved.
And why not sue? After all, President Ninth Circuit (or should I say King?) rules this country along with the Deep State.
I think Tucker Carlson had this dude on his show last week. He had written an op-ed piece for one of the newsrags. He lied to Tucker, that HE had no prob with the EC, but that he’d only written it in response to a reader’s question. I call it a lie because NOW he’s going to the extreme of a lawsuit. THAT is the tipoff that the EC is a burr under HIS saddle; not some fictitious unnamed “reader”.
Only tax paying property owners.
That said, recall the cereal box that included the deed to one square inch of land?
You know it would return.
Micro property holder/micro taxpayer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotion
“I think I would like an election where all electoral votes are allocated by how voters in that district decide. Here in Illinois my vote is wasted every presidential election thanks to the weight of that big tumor called Chicago that sucks the life out of the rest of the state.”
If we were to go to a system like that, then I think we should apportion electoral votes not only in proportion to population, but also in proportion to the land mass of the district. Manhattan is only 0.042% of the land mass in the state of New York. All of NYC (all the boroughs) is only 0.86% of the land mass of New York state. So, all of the electoral votes of NY are determined by people living in less than 1% of the total land mass. People who live in different areas, with different lifestyles and different issues of importance, essentially have no say - including all of those who produce the food that those living in NYC survive on. There could be a multiplier, based upon land mass of the district.
Specify Income Taxes, everything but sales tax.
Pro. Lessig lives in freedom but teaches a form of Marxism in place of the U.S.Constitution.
Save your money parents...send your child to Hillsdale or some similar American college.
If elections were 100% fair.
And the msm wasn’t 85.7 percent fake.
The left would never win an election.
If we could exicute RINOs America would be far better off..but that’s another topic.
Yeah, I've given up on a significant majority of people waking up to the insanity we're in. If the imposition of baby butchery and the wholesale un-defining of marriage didn't do it, nothing will.
We are, collectively, essentially comatose.
IIRC, The Constitution gives states the right to determine how they select their state delegates.
Most states are winner-take-all, but some states proportion.
This is just another Lib attempt to use the Courts to push their agenda.
From the outdated, written by slave-holding white men, Constitution: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress”
“...in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct” doesn’t give much wiggle room for a judge, does it?
Can a court overturn the constitution? We will soon find out.
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